The Kafr Bara Hoard

Abstract

Excavations at Kafr Bara in central Israel yielded a hoard composed of 78 Roman provincial tetradrachms, 15 denars and possibly also a radiate (antoninianus). The hoard was examined alongside 14 comparable hoards. The early tetradrachms, with subsequent ‘gaps’, in the Kafr Bara and other hoards, are not thought to have been heirlooms. While the far-flung mint distribution of Caracalla and Macrinus tetradrachms was recognized, one may nevertheless discern relatively high numbers of the closer mints in the Kafr Bara hoard, and other mints. Deposit dates ‘after 233 CE’ or ‘after 243–244 CE’ for the Kafr Bara hoard are discussed.